Nottage, who won a Pulitzer for RUINED, a story about women living through war in the Congo (which was given a soaring, unforgettable production at OSF in 2010), is working on a new play about Reading, PA, currently ranked as the poorest city in the US. Similar to her approach for RUINED, to prepare for which the playwright and director Kate Whoriskey traveled to Africa to interview rape survivors, Nottage has interviewed residents in Reading.

You can bet she’ll give us something interesting and well worth our time.